Police are investigating the vandalism of the Israeli flag along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Center City, adjacent to the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza.

It happened around 5:35 Friday morning and surveillance video shows a masked man pull up on a bicycle and spray paint the flag red.

Many Jewish organizations have since called it out as a display of antisemitism.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Philadelphia Police Department's TIP line.

(Photo Credit: Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza)

Police are investigating the vandalism of the Israeli flag along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Center City, adjacent to the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza.
It happened around 5:35 Friday morning and surveillance video shows a masked man pull up on a bicycle and spray paint the flag red.
Many Jewish organizations have since called it out as a display of antisemitism.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Philadelphia Police Department's TIP line.
(Photo Credit: Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza)

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